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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by arethuza on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @08:58AM (#7177361)
The Soviets had a system that was based on putting warheads into a fractional orbit, rather than on a ballistic path - Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_...

I can't find any details, but most descriptions seem to imply that they needed to have a rocket engine on the warhead to come out of orbit (which is what I would expect).

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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by drakeandrews on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:35AM (#7178040)
Correction: FOBS put warheads in low earth polar orbit.
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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by arethuza on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @11:27AM (#7178412)
Out of interest - what part of what I said are you correcting? :-)
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